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Jump to full article: South Atlantic Remote Territories Media Association (SARTMA) (fk), 2006-07-28
Author: J. Brock (FINN
Intro: Answer By the Attorney General Mr. David Lang QC:
Mr. Speaker and Honourable Members, under section 90 of the Licencing Ordinance, it is unlawful for any person to sell any tobacco to any person who he knows or has reasonable cause to suspect is under the age of 16.
Under the same section it is unlawful for any person under 16 to consume tobacco in any way. And, a Police Officer may, with the use only of such force as is reasonably necessary in the circumstances of the case, seize any tobacco, which he finds in the possession, in a street or other public place of a person, whom the Police Officer reasonably suspects to be under the age of 16.
Any such tobacco seized is to be delivered to the Chief Police Officer or as the Chief Police Officer may direct.
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